I've noticed that Doctor Who and Doctor Who Confidential episodes for the past several weeks have had the characteristic 'bubbly' or 'warbling' audio that comes with either >1 encoding step or slightly dodgy first generation audio encoding. The problem manifests itself particularly in reverb tails, sibilance (e.g. Amy Pond saying 'ssh' at 24:36) or quiet passages or sections with strings or woodwind in the backing music, (e.g. in the music from 24:17 in http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00spgsf/hd/Doctor_Who_Series_5_Vincent _and_the_Doctor/ )
It's quite distracting and detracts from my viewing experience (and I'd imagine others). most frustrating is that it's not always been there. Unfortunately I don't know anybody specific in the iPlayer team who deals with quality assurance stuff, can someone in the know please forward it on? Cheers Chris - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
